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Homeless Center’s Opening Delayed Two Weeks
The city’s newest front against an infamously pervasive homelessness problem, an eight- to 18-month pilot project known as the Navigation Center, was slated to open Monday but will instead be delayed...
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Two Fire Victims End Months of Homelessness, But a Third Remains Unhoused
Since a five-alarm fire in June displaced Kimberly Walley and her husband, Henry Texada, from the single room occupancy hotel where they had been living for some five years, the couple had fallen on...
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Market-rate studios to replace Valencia street’s Phoenix Irish Bar
The Phoenix Irish Bar’s days might be numbered — and it is potentially being replaced with 20 market-rate studios being labeled as “SROs.” It’s a trend that people like Sam Moss, of the Mission...
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Pop-up testing site on 16th Street offers free Covid-19 tests and flu shots
As flu season begins, community groups and Walgreens will launch a new temporary healthcare site at the 16th Street and Mission BART Plaza where people can get free covid-19 testing and flu vaccines...
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Updated: 16th Street BART becomes one-stop-shop for free covid tests and flu...
Clad in vibrant orange and face-shields, Unidos En Salud volunteers scampered alongside BART commuters as they exited the 16th Street Mission BART Plaza, asking if they want a free covid-19 test and...
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Woman Found Dead at SF Hotel from Apparent Overdose
A young woman was found dead from an apparent drug overdose early Sunday morning at the a single room occupancy hotel at Utah and 24th streets. She has been identified […] Woman Found Dead at SF Hotel...
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New study shows ‘isolation and quarantine hotels’ helped free up hospital...
Only 4 percent needed further investigation for potential hospitalization, when their disease appeared to get worse. New study shows ‘isolation and quarantine hotels’ helped free up hospital space,...
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Cooking at an SRO and creating the Pandemic Pedestrian Patrol
How do you eat when the pandemic closed a lot of your favorite cheap eats? If you are on a fixed income and live in a single room occupancy hotel? If […] Cooking at an SRO and creating the Pandemic...
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Activists seize City Hall elevators, demand SRO elevator repairs
“Sorry, can’t ride the elevator.” These words echoed through City Hall Wednesday afternoon as 14 disability activists blocked politicians and staffers from entering three of the building’s elevators...
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In jailhouse interview, stabbing suspect claims self-defense
Thomas Baxter, the 70-year-old charged with attempted murder in a stabbing on Sunday night, said today from the San Francisco County Jail that it was unbelievable that he was arrested […] In jailhouse...
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After 3 months with no elevator, SRO tenants must keep waiting
"They’d rather put a band-aid on it instead of correcting it,” the tenant with arthritis said. After 3 months with no elevator, SRO tenants must keep waiting
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Disrepair programs to be cut in proposed SF budget
“When there’s something wrong with our building, they’ve improved it,” Jose Marquez said in Spanish. “We need it.” Disrepair programs to be cut in proposed SF budget
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